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Divisive political discourse today reflects a need to address issues of oppression in North American society. Accordingly, teachers can help students confront these problems. Linking critical pedagogy and transformative learning theory, this…

Biochar, a form of black carbon produced from pyrolyzed biomass, has been touted as a product that may suppress agricultural soil emissions while also sequestering carbon. BC Biocarbon LTD, a recently established company in McBride, BC, has…

The first part of this thesis investigated the growth-inhibitory and immunomodulatory potential of six wild Canadian mushrooms. Out of 24 crude extracts, six showed strong growth-inhibitory activity, two exhibited strong immuno-stimulatory activity…

Following a protracted attempt at voluntary metropolitan planning in the Calgary region, that was characterized by ongoing rural-urban tensions, in 2017, the Government of Alberta mandated seven urban and three rural municipalities to participate on…

This thesis examines three Gothic novels: The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. In these three novels, the female heroines of each struggle against the patriarchal power…

Hospice care can improve quality of life for persons nearing end of life. Little is known about hospice care practices in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in Canada. This thesis included 185,715 residents in LTCFs in Canada in 2015 and followed…

Intermontane lakes are often enclosed by complex topography that creates difficulty in resolving the local and regional wind fields. Quesnel Lake, nestled into the western flank of the Cariboo Mountains in central British Columbia, is one such lake…

Snow plays an important role on the hydrological cycle of watersheds in cold regions. Predicting timing and magnitude of snow accumulation and ablation is necessary for water management in different sectors. A spatially distributed snow model (…

This thesis study analyzed the land use and land cover (LULC) changes in Stoney Creek Watershed, BC, Canada using the combination of remote sensing, GIS and modeling approaches. The Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) tool in PCI Geomatica 2017…

Biocultural approaches to conservation include the protection and appreciation of other ways of knowing the environment. Studies in traditional resource management systems illuminate the intricate ways culture has coevolved with nature and provide…

Widespread displacement of persons domiciled in northeastern Nigeria is one of the most profound aftermaths of the Boko Haram insurgency. This study investigates the challenges of internally displaced persons (IDPs), particularly women and girls, in…

Due to an exponential increase in number of electronic documents and easy access to information on the Internet, the need for text summarization has become obvious. An ideal summary contains important parts of the original document, eliminates…

Deep Learning has become increasingly popular since 2006. It has an outstanding capability to extract and represent the features of raw data and it has been applied to many domains, such as image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision,…